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Gold Thioglucose - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2009 - MyArtBroker

Gold Thioglucose
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

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76 x 93cm, Edition of 45, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 45
Year: 2009
Size: H 76cm x W 93cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: September 2020
Value Trend:
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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
September 2020
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
£15,300
£18,000
£22,500
September 2020
Phillips London
United Kingdom
June 2018
Ketterer Kunst Hamburg
Germany
April 2018
Christie's New York
United States
September 2013
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
December 2012
Phillips London
United Kingdom
March 2012
Christie's London
United Kingdom
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Damien Hirst's Gold Thioglucose (signed) from 2009 is a screenprint, estimated to be worth between £12,000 and £18,000. This artwork has been sold 8 times at auction since its initial sale on 12th October 2011. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £18,000 in September 2020 to £18,849 in September 2020. The average annual growth rate of this work is -5% and the edition size is limited to 45.

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Meaning & Analysis

Each with the same pictorial and optical efficiency it is almost impossible to decipher each of Hirst’s Spots paintings from one another. Gold Thioglucose, however, differs from many of the Spots paintings in its use of a gold backdrop. Despite their deceiving simplicity, these works are laborious and painstaking to produce. They are also deceptive in their joyous appearance, as Hirst has explained: “If you look closely at any one of these paintings, a strange thing happens: because of the lack of repeated colours there is no harmony…So in every painting there is a subliminal sense of unease: the colours project so much joy it’s hard to feel it, but it’s there.”

Integral to the impact of the Spots paintings is their endlessness and infinite potential towards many various colour combinations. This print is almost mathematical in its formulaic composition that is repeated across all the Spot paintings, with grids of various sizes. In the 1980s, the Spots paintings marked a shift in Hirst’s artistic career, where he began to employ assistants to complete the painstaking and laborious task of producing these works. The apparent lack of human intervention in Gold Thioglucose further emphasises the mathematical precision that underlines their compositions.

  • Damien Hirst, born in Bristol in 1965, is often hailed the enfant terrible of the contemporary art world. His provocative works challenge conventions and his conceptual brilliance spans installations, paintings, and sculptures, often exploring themes of mortality and the human experience. As a leading figure of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement in the late '80s, Hirst's work has dominated the British art scene for decades and has become renowned for being laced with controversy, thus shaping the dialogue of modern art.

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